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'''ABIF''' stands for "aggregated ballot information format"<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/issues/2</ref>. As of MayIn 2021, it has been undergoing discussion on the /r/[[EndFPTPUser:RobLa]] subredditstarted anda onGitHub repo under the "[[EM-listElectowiki:Electorama!|Electorama!]].<ref" name="EM-post-2788">http://listsbranding.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2021-May/002788.html</ref><ref{{Cite nameweb|url="robla-comment-reddit-2020-05-26">https://www.redditgithub.com/relectorama/EndFPTP/comments/nkm2cd/standardizing_cardinal_ballot_notation/gzls6pj/</ref><ref>http://lists.electoramaabif|title=github.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2021abif|url-May/002789.htmlstatus=live}}</ref>
 
== Discussions ==
The discussions about ABIF have been happening in several places:
 
* In May 2021, the main discussions were on the /r/[[EndFPTP]] subreddit and on the [[EM-list]].<ref name="EM-post-2788">http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2021-May/002788.html</ref><ref name="robla-comment-reddit-2020-05-26">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/nkm2cd/standardizing_cardinal_ballot_notation/gzls6pj/</ref><ref>http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2021-May/002789.html</ref>
* In June 2021, the discussions shifted over to the EM-list, and then mostly on the GitHub issue tracker.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/electorama/abif/issues|title=electorama/abif issue tracker on GitHub|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/electorama/abif/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed|title=electorama/abif closed issues on GitHub|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In July 2021, conversations were dying down, but then [[User:RobLa]] published an [[W:EBNF|EBNF]] file describing ABIF. More activity occurred on GitHub.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
* By August 2021, conversations mostly shifted over to GitHub. [[User:RobLa]] opened [https://github.com/electorama/abif/discussions the "Discussions" area on electorama/abif on GitHub], and provided an update on the project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/electorama/abif/discussions/18|title=August 2021 progress on ABIF|last=Lanphier|first=Rob|date=2021-08-28|website=electorama/abif on github.com|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
== Details ==
ABIF uses the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 UTF-8] character encoding.
 
== Test cases ==
 
The normative set of test cases are on GitHub, and we'll be expanding them there. Among the things we want to test for<ref>http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2021-June/002793.html</ref>
 
* Case #1: Unordered scores on a bundle line.<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test001.abif</ref>
*Case #2: Unscored (but ranked) candidates delimited only by ">" and "=".<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test002.abif</ref>
*Case #3: Ranked ''and'' rated candidates.<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test003.abif</ref>
*Case #4: Bracketed, inlined candidate tokens with many "high UTF-8" characters, like "ñ", "í", "á", "蘇","業".<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test004.abif</ref>
*Case #5: Declared candidate tokens, with unordered scores.<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test005.abif</ref>
*Case #6: Declared candidate tokens, ranked and scored.<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test006.abif</ref>
*Case #7: Bracketed candidate tokens (declared), ranked with no score.<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test007.abif</ref>
*Case #8: Bracketed candidate tokens (mixed), ranked with no score and most extra whitespace removed.<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test008.abif</ref>
*Case #9: Asterisk-delimited multiplier, suggested by Jan Šimbera in May 2020.<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test009.abif</ref><ref>http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2021-June/002793.html</ref>
==Footnotes==
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